Thanks Michael! :) We’re not running a
picture slide show but we will be running IE8.
Anyone else with older hardware and your
experiences with DF? The gx240’s are a 1.4 GHZ with 512 of RAM. We can upgrade
the RAM with surplus sticks but I am now a little worried about these old OPAC’s….
We haven’t had a chance yet to produce a lab and I will certainly make sure we
toss a couple of them in there.
Thanks,
Gretchen Garcia
MCLD IT Services
"There are 10 types
of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't."
=)
From:
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 2:46
PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: More deep freeze
questions ;)
The
computers sometimes get stuck in DF maintenance mode. You cannot reset them or
restart them or do anything from the console. Usually a web page is displayed
in IE7, but you cannot type anything and clicking the mouse produces no
response. Often one of our screen saver slides will be stuck but there may be a
part of IE showing on the bottom of the screen. The only thing you can do is to
hold in the power key for 10 seconds to force the power off, then power it on,
wait for it to restart at which time it will immediately shut down again
because it thinks it is coming out of its maintenance period. After all this,
which can easily take 7 minutes with one of these old machines, you then have
to press the power button once more to start the machine a final time. Usually
then it will be okay for a while, but can get frozen again with a non-responsive
keyboard or mouse at any time during the day. We have found that it happens
more often on certain computers, not every single one of this model. By the
way, I was able to up the RAM from 512 MB to 1 GB in all of these computers but
that did not help this problem at all. Finally, I had to uninstall Deep Freeze
Ent. from all of these computers and they work fine now. I don't know if you
would experience this if you were not running the My Pictures Slideshow
screensaver on these or similar computers, and it may not be a problem if you
are running something less than IE7. I believe I did run DFE on a couple of
270s for a while with no problems. I think I could have solved my problem by
removing the screensaver and leaving DFE, but since these were OPACs with very
limited Internet Access, I decided that risks to the hard drive and system were
less important than the things we were trying to advertise and promote on the
screensavers.
In general, I think DFE is a superb product and I just renewed my 135
license. But chances are I will be able to upgrade all of these old computers
in the next year. Also, I should say that I did not bother to call Faronics to
seek support on this issue so I don't know if they would have been able to
help. My attitude was: these are old machines and I'm pushing my luck anyway
with them, not worth spending hours or days tracking down the source of the
problem.
Michael
Wofsey
Assistant Director for
Technology
Public Library of
617-730-2348 (desk), 617-799-8529 (mobile)
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From: Gretchen Garcia - LIBRARY <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:32:53 -0700
Subject: Re: [LIBNT-L] More deep freeze questions ;)
Going on the tangent of old machines… 98% of our express
catalog machines are gx240’s. At this point I can’t upgrade. (Not for lack of
trying!) We don’t have any 260’s in public service but we do have a few 270’s
and many many 280’s. Can you give me some more information on this “bad
state” problem? :)
Thanks,
Gretchen Garcia
MCLD IT Services
From:
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:30
AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: More deep freeze
questions ;)
I use Deep Freeze
widely, on both public and staff machines (we have roaming profiles and
re-directed user folders, so nothing is on the local computer). I use the
The one problem I have had with the
I also run JAWS
and Kurzweil 1000 on one computer with Deep Freeze and have never had a problem
with it.
Michael Wofsey
Assistant Director for Technology
Public Library of
617-730-2348 (desk), 617-799-8529 (mobile)
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From: James Guilford <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 02:40:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [LIBNT-L] More deep freeze questions ;)
We have several installations of JAWS and DeepFreeze doesn't interfere with
them. DeepFreeze doesn't seem to have any negative effects on any software I
can think of providing permanent changes are not required for routine operation
of that software. Even then, as you've read, a "thawed" drive can be
created where permanent changes are allowed.
DeepFreeze is so transparent to OS operations that, should you forget to thaw
your Program Files drive as Administrator, you could run through a program
installation successfully only to find your work wiped clean on system restart!
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James Guilford, I.T. Manager
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From: "Gretchen Garcia - LIBRARY" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent 4/5/2010 7:18:21 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [LIBNT-L] More deep freeze questions ;)
Do any of
you have Deep Freeze running with JAWS? Does it work? :-) What about Kurzweil
3000?
Thanks,
Gretchen Garcia
MCLD IT
Services
"There
are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who
don't." =)